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In 1985, after studying the ANC's revolutionary strategies, the government initiated a counter-revolutionary unit called Trewits which operated secretly.
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Botha's chairmanship, known of a secret security force unit known as Trewits that targeted anti-apartheid activists for elimination in the 1980s.
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His description of the secret unit, known by its Afrikaans acronym Trewits, was eerily reminiscent of the so-called Star
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His description of the secret unit, known by its Afrikaans acronym Trewits, was eerily reminiscent of the so-called Star
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He said it was possible that Trewits might have given the order to kill the
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He said Trewits was responsible for identifying targets and recommending strategies for dealing with them.
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State Security Council at the time Trewits was established.
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Meyer, said to have been chairman of the State Security Council at the time Trewits was established.
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State Security Council at the time Trewits was established.
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The counter-revolutionary intelligence body, Trewits, identified targets for the security forces, but did not report to the SSC directly.
BADGERARMS commented on the word Trewits
The name TREWITS is the name given to a secret unit and stands for TEEN-REVOLUSIONERE INLIGTING TEIKEN SPAN which is Afrikaans for COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY TARGET TEAM. This unit was a top-secret unit headed by a Chairman who was a senior police officer from the Security Branch and had about 12 members represented by the police's Security Branch, The military's Department of Intelligence (DMI/AMI), The military's Department of Covert Operations(DCI/DKI) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The unit operated at the highest level of the apartheid government and was tasked to identify certain enemies of the state both local and foreign and plan and operationally support their execution and elimination. Stephen Sander was a member of this unit from 1989 to 1991. This unit was also called Unit C4/C40 and brother unit on Vlakplaas was called Unit C1/C10.
February 11, 2016
bilby commented on the word Trewits
How do you get W in an acronym for a series of words that don't contain W?
February 11, 2016